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Re: A generic reader for Guile?
Chris Bitmead <chris@tech.com.au> writes:
> Let me get this straight...
>
> You are saying that you could link the bison/lex skeleton into guile
> (once and for all), and then define the rules for the language in Scheme
> to generate a parser which is just as fast as a regular bison/lex
> parser?
>
> Then you are further saying that you could define the Scheme language
> itself in Scheme generating bison/lex rules and therefore discard the
> existing Scheme parser?
Exactly! :-)
> It all sounds incredibly clever. I might even have time to work on it
> say 10 or 15 summers hence :-)
Since this would be so useful, since it's a thing that could be
subdivided into many tasks which different people can work on, and
since it seems like a few people *are* interested in working on it,
how about forming a small project group, developing this thing?
I would suggest that Lynn is appointed team leader. I will supply you
with my current hack and a few ideas. I may also be of some help
concerning low-level details.
How do you feel about this idea, Lynn?